He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

I can make the best French toast.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.

We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.